Introducing cards into Slovenian health insurance and health care.

This paper presents an outline of the Slovenian project of introducing card systems into health insurance and health care: bases for its launching; scope, system design, development phases, benefits, and issues of interoperability with the other card systems. The card system will induce distinct simplifications of the procedures now performed in the health care system, improve the quality of medical administrative services to the patients. The introduction of the card technology is under way in several European countries. With the Health insurance card system project, Slovenia is joining the EU projects, and can either test in practice and implement the concepts, as well as contributes particular original solutions.